Jingle...new chapter

OGM Yes come on back Jingly Jangle - we all (most of us) miss you

Yes I miss your posts too

I miss the fun jingle brought to the threads, made me smile. Come back jingle

Your not over at that other place making those younguns laugh are you?????

I have sent a search party over to Mumsnet to see if she is there.

jingle please return!

Look out for new names. She may be reincarnated.

glass hopefully she will be on here soon she has surely not used up her nine live's,I miss her humour and input to the posts and I am sure she will be keeping an eye on what is going on.

Seconded! Love you Jings! bring your back.

Agree with Glamma that she is probably 'keeping an eye on what is going on'.
We don't have insight into the lives of others so don't really know her reasons for withdrawing. She will make her own choices with or without our comments.

I agree with em, J is a grown woman who will make her own choices. The 'flouncing - cries of come back - return to cheers' cycle is becoming tiresome. Please just let this rest.

I'm not going to start a fight about this, but I think it must have been off-putting for new members of GN who have happened to stray into the middle of one of those slanging matches.

I agree annobel

Hear hear! Let's welcome open-minded new members but then understand if they decide that GN is not quite for them - whatever their reasons. It isn't being unpleasant to acknowledge that it's a case of 'chacun a son gout' - each to their own - nor is it nasty to say that replaying the same scene is becoming tedious.

OK.

I, too, have looked on Mumsnet to see if Jingl might be there. What I have noticed each time I have looked on there is how abusive some mums are in the way they speak to each other, and about other people. It doesn't surprise me that mums visiting Gransnet from a culture that Mumsnet has may inadvertently use similar language on here and find they are rebuked - we are more polite and respectful.

I've ventured onto Mumsnet just once or twice and didn't happen to see anything abusive or rude though I've heard more than once that it does happen. I'll put on my Pedant's hat as I say that I'm really put off by the appalling spelling and grammar. Therefore because I am uncomfortable with some aspects of the site, I simply avoid it.

By the way, I saw an interesting interview on BBC Breakfast today involving a Mumsnet representative and Katie Hopkins (Business woman and ex-Apprentice).
They were discussing whether or not babies should be taken to Olympic events and, if so, should parents have to buy tickets for them?

I must admit I was beginning to think I was back in the girls' dorm! Anyone who wants to drop out of Gransnet should be allowed to do so. Also to return if they feel so inclined. Can we all be grown up about this please?

petallus I agree .There are too many rules in life we all have to abide to.

petallus Anyone who wants to drop out of gransnet can. Anyone who wants to return can. What's to be grown up about?

Annika I don't think anyone mentioned abiding by rules - just making choices.

My point is that this is the second time we are going through trying to get Jingl to come back to Gransnet. Some of the posts even have a pleading quality to them. So far Jingl has not responded. For heaven's sake, surely we should be able to cope with one of our number deciding to opt out without all of this fuss. I know I'm being blunt but I'm irritated.

....but you just haven't spotted it yet.

he he he

Have you done a profile yet shehas ha ha

OK - we now have a new member, then? Let us move on!